A real, live, professional journal has accepted two of my poems!

In June when The Roanoke Review comes out, I will officially be a published writer

Not having internet makes me a hell of a lot more productive. It's crazy ( Read more... )

Twenty-One Love Poems

I wake up in your bed. I know I have been dreaming.
Much earlier, the alarm broke us from each other,
you've been at your desk for hours. I know what I dreamed:
our friend the poet comes into my room
where I've been writing for days,
drafts, carbons, poems are scattered everywhere,
and I want to show her one poem
which is the poem of ( Read more... )

Even if I now saw you
Only once,
I would long for you
Through worlds,
Worlds.

Izumi Shikibu (c.974)

Early man "couldn't stomach milk"

Gorgeous, haunting Sigur Ros music video (every video of theirs could be from Eternal Sunshine or its unborn sister)

From a poem called "Getting Older"

Sometimes it's enough just to say
their names like a rosary, ordinary names
linked by nothing but the fact
that they belong to men who loved you. And finally
you depend on that, you pray it's enough
to last, if it has to, the rest of your life.

-Kim Addonizio

I got my first ever rejection from a journal I submitted my poetry to!
I can now say I'm a submitting writer.

Word!

Try to read only a single stanza of this... I dare you.
Your eyes/are so green - one of your parents must be/part traffic light.
I love this guy!

Absence
Jeffrey McDaniel

On the scales of desire, your absence weighs more
than someone else’s presence, so I say no thanks

to the woman who throws her girdle at my feet,
as I drop a postcard in the ( Read more... )